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This newly-created position will develop and oversee the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Research Administration Services, which is being created to better serve the research functions of our departments and centers, reduce risk and improve efficiencies through process improvement. This position will advise school leadership on research policy and provide guidance and direction application strategies and on compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements.

The Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation program (TPEP) in the UNC School of Medicine has been awarded a two-year, $887,431 contract from Juul Settlement funds received by the NC Department of Health and Human Services to better understand electronic cigarette use among our youth and young adults.

Using a newly developed algorithm and a validation study, two labs in the UNC School of Medicine find that cancer hijacks a class of enzyme motif mutations to fuel tumorigenesis.

The 7.5-million grant from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will help researchers pinpoint specific factors that lead to a better immune response through HIV vaccination.

Graduate Research Assistant Darla McDonald won the audiology poster award at the American Cochlear Implant Alliance meeting for her presentation of a case study of a cochlear implant recipient with reported catastrophic tinnitus in the implanted ear who participated in clinical research aimed at improving individual patient outcomes.

A new study by researchers in the UNC School of Medicine, including Meghan Rebuli, PhD, Ilona Jaspers, PhD, and Kevin T. Cao, has found that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination produces a robust immune response in the nasal cavity.

A multicenter, randomized, phase 3b trial, done in collaboration with a UNC School of Medicine researcher, found that once-daily oral semaglutide taken at higher doses of 25mg and 50mg improved regulation of blood sugar levels and weight loss compared to the standard 14 mg dose.

Yuyang Tang, PhD, and Guochun Jiang, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine extracted living brain tissue to conclude that specialized immune cells in the brain can harbor latent but replication-competent HIV.

The Clinical Research Alliance will lead the UNC School of Medicine’s coordinating center clinical research enterprise, enabling its world class investigators with new capabilities to lead the design and implementation of multi-site clinical research, while making clinical research more streamlined for researchers, industry partners and trial participants.

Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, traveled to the White House on June 1 for the Cancer Moonshot Smoking Cessation Forum. The meeting highlighted the Biden Administration’s commitment to tackling the single biggest driver of cancer deaths in this country—smoking—and efforts underway across sectors to equitably expand access to effective smoking cessation support.

UNC School of Medicine scientists Whitney Edwards, PhD, Frank Conlon, PhD, and colleagues identified molecular pathways critical for heart development.

Bianca A. Allison, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, led a qualitative study showing that adolescents know and care about the changing legal landscape of abortion in the United States.

Category: Research

UNC School of Medicine Seeks Senior Director for Research Administration

UNC Receives NC DHHS Contract to Study E-Cigarette Use in Youth and Young Adults

Researchers Identify a New Mechanism, Cancer Hijacks Enzyme Substrate Motif Mutations

De Paris Receives Grant to Study HIV Vaccination in Infant Disease Models

McDonald Wins American Cochlear Implant Alliance Meeting Poster Award

COVID-19 Vaccines Produce Antibody Response in the Nasal Mucosa

Higher Doses of Oral Semaglutide Improves Blood Sugar Control and Weight Loss

New Research Shows HIV Can Lie Dormant in the Brain

UNC School of Medicine Launches Clinical Research Alliance

Goldstein Represents UNC at White House Smoking Cessation Forum

Researchers Target Proteins, Pathways Behind Congenital Heart Disease

Adolescents are Aware of and Invested in the Potential Impacts of Abortion Restrictions, Study Says